An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.

Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents such as auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce, or even falling off a bicycle. At the core of this book is the understanding of how trauma is imprinted on the body, brain, and spirit, resulting in anxiety, nightmares, depression, physical illnesses, addictions, hyperactivity, and aggression. Rich with case studies and hands-on activities, Trauma Through A Child’s Eyes gives insight into children’s innate ability to rebound with the appropriate support, and provides their caregivers with tools to overcome and prevent trauma.

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"Trauma Through A Child’s Eyes is an extraordinary body of work. Healing ourselves and our children of the effects of trauma is of the utmost importance. The more aligned we are inside ourselves and with our outer world, the more we will be able to create peace." —Debbie Robins, bestselling author of Where Peace Lives

"Some books are said, in their originality, to 'break the mold.' Trauma Through A Child’s Eyes goes one further: it creates its own mold in a way that everyone concerned with the health and happiness of children will be grateful for." —Gabor Maté, MD, author of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

"A truly remarkable book that captures the essence of what it is to be a traumatized child, while simultaneously helping us understand, appreciate, and facilitate their natural capacity to heal. Written with a deep sense of compassion and wisdom, this book offers clear insight to those who care for and about children." —John Stewart, PhD, author of Beyond Time Out; clinical director, Maine Medical Center; consultant to public schools, Child Psychiatry Fellowship Faculty

About the Author

Dr. Peter A. Levine, author of the best-selling Waking the Tiger and of Healing Trauma, has a background in medical biophysics, stress, and psychology. He developed Somatic Experiencing®, and serves as a consultant to the Meadows, a leading residential addiction recovery center. He lives on the banks of the St. Vrain River in the Rocky Mountains.

Maggie Kline, MS, MFT, has more than thirty years of experience as a teacher, family and child therapist, school psychologist, and parent. She is a senior faculty member for Dr. Levine’s Professional Training Program and resides by the sea in southern California with her therapy dog, Beijo.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA must have in a every family home, educators curriculum, pediatricians office, and therapist's shelf

February 22, 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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Fantastic book! Peter Levine and Maggie Kline did a wonderfully with putting this book out there. It's so well written and very accessible. I have a few of Peter Levine's book and this is by far one of my favorites. I love how many real life examples it includes to bring the ideas home. It's well balanced between science, cases, and exercises making it a book for practitioners, pediatricians, parents, educators, and other adults that would like to understand trauma better and know how to help their children's nervous system recover to reduce the impact of trauma. Thanks again Levine and Kline!

This book was highly recommended to me by a friend. Although I did not read most of it, what I have read already is very good! I'm sure that it is a great book as my friend said...Her words exactly where, "It's a must have"!

5.0 out of 5 starsAn incredible resource for parents, therapists, and former children...

June 9, 2007 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book is a remarkable resource of information for anyone who has any experience or contact with children. It is not a heady read. Completely and utterly accessible to those who have no formal training in psychology (yet still riveting for those who do), it has many step-by-step guides (creative, physical, and emotional) for dealing with and assisting children through a myriad of life's trials and traumas, including random falls and accidents, loss of a pet, abuse, death, & bullying to name a few. This book also offers numerous skill-building guides to help a child develop their senses, mindfulness, awareness and boundaries, and several basic cases are presented of children they have come in contact with over the years with various presenting problems. Terribly informative, moving, healing, thought provoking and profoundly educational, this book will be one you'll recommend again and again. Not said tongue in cheek, if you were ever a child, you need to read this book.

5.0 out of 5 starsrecommended to all social workers to help them understand the ...

March 18, 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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recommended to all social workers to help them understand the trauma that children experience things in their life that can help us as professionals understand how moving a foster child from one home to another can effect them in more ways than one and we sometimes do not understand that what we think is helping to keep them safe is actually causing them more pain and grief

This is such an enlightening and interesting subject, and Peter Levine masters it and translates the research and data into very readable and engaging language. Helpful for anyone is contact with kids- from teachers, to therapists, and of course parents. Great book.